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What is a pauper?

What is a pauper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who is extremely poor.
  2. One living on or eligible for public charity.
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If we go back to the example of the US Supreme Court, a pauper who has to depend on free legal aid is no match for the billionaire.
Vagrants, tramps and casuals were strictly separated from the resident pauper inmates housed in the gothic splendour of the Main Workhouse.
However, I was as poor as a pauper with a broken carriage and no prince.
She is supposed to have disguised herself as a pauper for a young priest who, out of charity, took her to an inn to feed her.
I should be glad to know what business a pauper body like this has blathering abroad?
And the heat went out of the pursuit eventually, and when he died in 1762, although a pauper, he was no longer a fugitive.

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